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MAI I.S. out- 2 Uottznbutich, t Dublin, t Waterford. PRICE OE STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWPIX O'CLOCK. ('nir.7LS . 7 1 I Omnium 'r SUN. IOLtP4 QUIS DICIAZ TALSUM AUDILAT ? L 0 N 1) 0 IV, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1910; An Opposition Paper of this .morning has pub li,hed a long lamentation on the total defeat of the hopes of the Party, accompanied by a violentinvec tive against the present Alinisters, for -their unpar donable obstinacy in retaining their. seats. We are, 4.sr from being disposed to treat theses ebullitions of di,,appointinent with severity, becauSe we are ready . to'confess that the events which occurred in the last Session, of Parliament were quite sufficient, if not to justify, at least to . palliate, the petulance and que rulousness which the Party have displayed. They bad contrived 'to raise their,hopes to so high a pitch, and looked. for ward to. the accomplishment of their ambitious schemes with so much confidence, that they are utterly unable to bear their disappointment th common fortitude. But their own expressive langmge is the best calculated to convey the nature of their feelings. " Never," say they, " never was human sagacity so baffled, or the well-grounded anticipations of hu wan reasoning so completely contradicted, as by the continuance of such men in the direEtion of our public affairs." ' This is undoubtedly very pathetic, but the saga city of the TALENTS hat been so frequently deceiv ed, and their anticipations have been so frequently' frustrated, that we should have thought that they might have acquired by habit, something like pa tience. As we sincerely wish to save the paity from unnecessary paip, and to prevent theni in future from sustaining such galling disappointments, we would recommeta to them before they indulge in sanguine expeaations for the future, to examine carefully the ground upon which such expeaationS are founded. The party complain most loudly OA the present Ministers have not been re moved from office, and that they have not been appointed to 'ucceed them ; and they say, that human sagacity is baffled" to llnd out why this de sirable ei:ent has not happened, and why all their " well-grounded anticipations" turned out to'rest upon no ground at all. But it would be quite as welt, before they indulged in these public com plaints, if their friends would state the grounds upon which the Party expected to be recalled to office; and if they would also mention by what part of the .community their recal was desired. Was it by the King ? No, t-tis Majesty had justly dis missed them from his Councils. Was it by Parlia- Meet ? No, Parliament has by their own conies . - &on been uniformly hostile to their views. Was it by . the People ? No, the People, at their pub- fic meetings, in their addresses and petitions, have treated therm with the most marked indifference, and have not even condescended to notice them; upon what grounds then they rest their claims, except upon the very exalted opinion they enter tlin of their own talents, and the very ardent de, sire they feel to be invested with power, we are at a loss to conceive. With regard to the other part. of the article to Which we are alluding, it cOn4iStsin a great degree of a repetition of accusations respecting the Wa!- cheren expedition, which have so frequently been brought forward, and so frequently refuted, both in and out of Parliament. tThere is, however, ano ther charge against Ministers in this article, and that is, that they did not lay on any addi tional Taxes this year. Mr. PERCEVAL'S con duct on this subject excited the disapprobation of I‘lr. TIERNEY and of other Gentlemen of the Op posii ion, who_accused him of a Wiih to acquire po pularity by not laying any a‘hlitional burthens upon tit people. It is impossible to conceive a more vlsk than for a :Minister to plea - se a discon t, awed Oppo,ition. If any new Taxes had been ~l i, t )sed , lie would haVe been acculted of !),.!ing inscniible to the sufferings of the people ; I.);it as additional Taxes wore not necessary, the 'Nil :il.teri4 very candidly charged with a wish to acquire ;polarity, because he did not 'propose them. But it is ~id that Ministers have been enabled to do without l lchtional bArthens, " becau,e they availed them es of the increased taxation which the financial , -,3t.;,isures of their predecessors afforded." Now, if that , assertion were trite, we do not see any thing cuipal>le in We aI ; but the fa& is not so; the ir,t(.lrest and charges.for the Loan of the present yea r - w:r,e provided for, from the surpluS of the Stamp :I,.ties; arising from a 'regulation proposed by Mr. Anotherd6rge is., that with tspeel to " ?Ministers become more indifferent to the necessity of conciliation."- 7 —We really thought the Bills brouallt in by Mr: PoLe, fa amend 'Lig the Arms AB, and for repealing t l.e Ttp.urrection Ad, afforded a strong proof of a desire to conciliate tile People of Ireland ; they were so considered by, all the Irish - Members in the Iffmse Common,, nt.d there is every reason to believe that they were so felt by.the People of Ireland. The last charge it, that cr our ague-stricken Mi • " nisters, are one moment convulsing the country in " the paroxysm of !heir pestilence; and in the next " betraying all, -that prostraliun of strength and " energy, the inseparable cousequeuce or rash and extreme Councils." To this accusation we must decline attenipting to git,;e an answer, for, to confess the truth, it is infi nitely too snblitnc tor our comprehension. On Thursday evening, his MAJESTY, and Prin- CeSSeS ELIZARETH and SOPHIA, walked on Windsor Terrace, ,till near nine o'clock. His MAJESTY was accompanied by Lords ST. HELEN'S, B4OS'ION, UXBRIHGIi, and DARTMOUTH ; the Bishop of CHESTER ; Ladies COLLIER and BOSTON ; generals CARTWItIGHT and GARTH ; and Col. DEsnkow whilst the bands of the Royal Horse guards (Blues) and the &al - 14d Militia played many martial and pleasing tunes. Yesterday morning, his MAJESTY, the Duke of CAmmt MGR, the Princess AUGUSTA and SOPHIA, ac compMied by. Lord ST. HELENS Generals GARTH .and CARTWRIGHT, Lldy COLi.YER, and Colon,: s TAYLOR, and DEsukow, took an airing in Windsor Great Palk, till twelve o'clock: • The Princess of WA Liis, preceded by - an out-rider, drove through several of the firiheivid streets of the metropolis ?ststetday afiernoon, attended .by a .Lady in a phaeton, drawn 'by four bays, with tvi, o postil lions.. Thursday morning nine transports, with the 20th, 761 h, and 92d regiments on board, sailed from 'Har wich, with a fair wind, fur the Downs. Three transports rem yin for the'porpose, it is said,. to take on board the 84th, now in barracks atlpswich. The East India Papers jnst received contain some interesting information relative to the progress of the petty warfare lately waged in that quarter by MERE 'KU AN, a Chieftain of considerable enter prize, hut whose career promises to he of very short 'duration. It is stated in a Supplement to the Ben. gal Mirror, on the. authority of letters from Hydra bad, that the force of this Chieftain on the Nub buddah has been defeated in an aCtion with the. troops of the Rajah of I3R RA R, and pursued'bevond Gabulpere, in Gurrah IVlundelah. MEetS KHAN liinuself, it is added, was wounded in an engage ment. This intelligence, if correct, is calculated to impress a very contemptuous opinion of the strength and efficacy of the force collected by the Mahratta Chieftain. Ever since Sir ARTHU It WELLESLEY'S campaign in the Deccan, the Bltoonslah has been considered' as the weakest military power in Hin duostaq. Not two years ago the inroads of the - bandS of Pendaries from the Nebbuddalt was suffi cient to throw the citypf Nagpere itself into con- Merit:lt • Accounts front tire Deccan state, that ,Col."CcpsE had joined the detachment of Janina, and ty.hib-4 on in the direaion of Otnrattee, thirty miles south of Elichpoor, where the army was to assemble, and where a powerful reinforcement was expelled' ti - 9m Hydrabad. By crossing the Nerbudidall at Gurrah Mundebah, MEER KHAN bad placed himself nearer to the frontier of Bundlecund. Inttelligence, there fore, of the progress of the campaign►, may shortly be expelled from that side. ' A detachment of his Majesty's 14th Foot, com manded by Lieutenant RAWLINS, with a detach ment of European .artillery. tinder Captain SHAW, bad embarked on board the City of London, des tined - to reinforce the garrison of Bencoolen, and were expected to sail the latter end of December last. Lord MINT° was not expe6ted to leave Madras before the latter end of February. The trial of Col. 'JOHN BELL, 'of the Artillery, was conclbded, but the sentence had not then been published; nor was It expeded to be made' known until the whole of the trials should be terminated, Several important changes had taken place in the commands of the se veral great stations of the army, and a number of 'Officers of Native Regiments had been removed - front their original corps to others. By the last advices from Brazil we are informed, that the Prince Regent has given to the public a most extraorinary proof that the late Minister Au- tine de Aranio de Azevedo is not the traitor which he is represented to be in this country. The ac count states, that on the 17t h of Atirch last, the Prince, with the greatest regard and atfecaion, con ferred on Antino de Aranio de Azevedo the honour of Grand Cruz of the Order of Christ, for all his most faithful and-critical services rendered to the PliliCe at Lisbon. A vessel is arrived at Guernsey, from a port on the Coast of France. She made her escape on Moo day last, having, about half a cargo of Wheat on board. She was fired upon from the fort, but was at too grt•at a distance to be injured or brought to, and consequently proceeded on her voyage. We have received some more le/ters from Por tugal. The following extract from a letter writ ten by an Officer in our army, l adds ,some par ticulars to the intelligence we communicated yes- • terday. , , . CELEBICO, Jana 13.—r still remain at head quarters ; 1 am of opiniori that his Lordship will not move or commence operations immediately.-- The French, to the number of 6000, have crossed the Aguida, and are investing Ciudad Rodrigo. Our adviinced corps, under General Craufurd, is about three leagues in front of Almeida, which town, with, almost every / village in the neigh bourhood, as Penhel, Guarda, &c. are occupied by the British. Our situation is certainly a very strong one, and I expeet, but it is only conjecture, that the French Will not..meet us without a greatly striderior force, and of course a certainty of Su, cess. Should that prove the case, .our retreat will be to Lisbon and Peniche, where our engineers are now throwing up lines to guard against all evils, and depots of . provisions are forming. In the course of .the present week four thousand lobsters, unfit for use, were thrown overboard a smack, intended for the London market. • NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTU, 4ILY the Mariner on brig with a convoy for the Downs; the /Too/wick. sore• ship fur Portsmouth ; and the Favourites sloop of war, on a cruize ; the William, FAWCKNEIt 111- lion, F RANCIS ; and the Ftench ship . Susan and Suralt for the River. Went into, harbour his Majesty's ships D;uid and Pirago. DOVER, JULY 6.—Passed by for London the homeward bound East India Fleet, consisting of twenty sail, and four ships and a biig, from St. Helena, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Argo, and the Penang,. a fine new frigate built in the Country. Also the Cape packet, LONDON, from the Cape of Good Hope; and the Maria, Smirn, front the River Plata. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 6.—Came ibis day, the Woolwich store•ship tram i the Mediteranean ; and the Dapper gun-brig from a cruize. The following transports arrived here on the 3d inst. from Lisbon, last from Plymouth, and were pUt under quarantine, from which they were re leased this, day, viz. :--Eliza, TUPPEA ; Camilla, PARKER,j Rodney, fiurNou ; Free Briton,H A it- LA ID ; Egbert, ANDERSON ; Charlotte, ALL ON ; Harlequin, Huusos.; Juno, BLAcKutn , i ; and Re- covery, HI NDMALOH. Arrived the John Thomas, GORDON, fiotn Water- ford. - Passed by last oighi the Lord &mean, with sere" ral.others.from'Beng3l. Came into,the harbour his Majesty's ship Incon stant from Spirhrad.: • hiis Majesty s ship Ey has detained and sent into tLis port, the brig Anna Maria kind Set IVilleng Reigat, of Preenckshall, from Bourdraux ; the for mer for Plyntotith and the latter for Loudon, laden with flour. DEAL, Jul. , / 6.—Arrived the Furious gun•brig from Harwich, with several transports for Cork, having the tote, 76i h, and 24th itegtments..on board. 'SHEERNESS, JULY .s.—Sailed his'.Majesty's, ship tidamargt, with a convoy to I.eith ;-and the brigs Calypso, Gluckstadt, mid Centhiel, with a convoy to the Baltic. Sailed has Nidx4ty's brig Mercurius with a con voy to Heligoland. Came down the River his 1.6 vy's ship Re- O tilUS a k The following are the names of the indiainen which at rived on Thursday off' the Isle of Wight The.lieury Addhlgton, Castle Eden, Surrey, Met ca lfe , Lord Castlereagh, Lady Cas lereagli, Devonshire, Nlaignis Wellesley, Baring, Carnatie, Walthamstow, Lunt Melville, Lord Duncan, Retreat, and the Penang frigate. Country Skips.—The Dover Castle, Marchioness of Exe. ter, Union, Northampton, and Caintaiath • Passengers per I/etre:tr.—Mr Harris, Lieut.-Colonel H. milton, • Samuel Parr, a • n S d k r i o ni f c. l l 3 ll( t t h re r n e' . ginient ' Per Metcalte.—Captain C. Mortlock, lat e o f t h e Hon.Laisign Cu rr i e , M r. Company's ship Carlton ; and Mr. I. Martyr, 3d Officer of ditto; Mrs. Wattle, Mr. A. Colvin, Mr. Cordon Captain I. Hunter, Mr. Grant , Mr. Williams, i 3 ctuttlten. - • The lkindham remained at the Cape, waiting far• convoy to proceed to India. GALLANT ACTION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. (A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER TO A FRIEND IS LONDON.) His Majisty's Ship Spartan, Malta, 16th May, tlito. • MY DEAII FRIEND—Aware that an old messmate (particularly a .once Spartan) will derive some gra tification from the particulars of our recent glorious contest, I willingly avail myself of' the fir'St convey ance to enable you to participate in the feelings of your old shipmates. (in the Ist instant, we, in company with the Success, chased into Naples a frigate, corvette,' brig, and cutter. On the :.;d, from a supposition on the p trt _of our truly galhot Captain (stabled Brenton) that these. fair weather birds would never put to sea, whilst menaced . by two British frigates, he ornered the Success (being a junior ship), to part Company : the toancruvre suc ceeded, and on the .following morning; at diy-liglu, the enemy's squadron was with : plea , u.c descried standing towards us, in a regular line of wide. It s was not in our nature to run !- but, agreeable to•our usual system, as well as their iistomshinent, • we made sail . for them ; and being aided by a li g ht breeze, were enabled, about forty minutes atter seven, to commence against '' fearful od ;s," what our gallant brother tars OU this station, as well as the conquered foe, acknov, , Jeketo have been one .01 the most brilliant actions ever fought by an Eng lish frigate. The battle took place off Naples, and commenced within pistol-shot of the French hi ,gate Ceres, of 42 guns, she being the leading ship of the enemy's line, and after a truly trying, yet, thank God, glorious contest of two hours and ten minutes (during which time the awful scene was wit nessed by his mock Maje Sty firm, and the whole po pulation of the proud city of Naples), we succeeded in capturing the national brig L'Espervoir, by our brave fellows gallantly boarding her, in the face of the enemy's whole force, who were, like unto our• selves, almost torn to piece;. When we, had ap proached this " host of foes" sufficiently near to be distil fly heard, we welcomed them with " three cheers," which was proposed by our gallant Cap tain, and given by our brave tars with heartfelt sin cerity for the honour of our beloved country and glorious profes,ion. 'From the Officers whom we. have taken prisoners, we have teen assured, that our clieering ,tmded forcibly to unnerve their men, as it taught them to believe we had in the fib : instance, decided rltr dea:h or vielory ! Our loss has b en,. severe—ten brave fellos o . killed, and Wound9r.l yet when Prefer you to th e se annexed unprecedented 'superiority to which 10 were opposed, you ma ;think ,with me, that those ,heroic Britons could never-have, fallen on a 11 0 e glorious occasion. Among the killed,_l have plorelhe death of thatgzannt yOuth, Mr. Robinson , Mater's Mate, whom you, as an old Spartan, Nas t recolieri ; and, an the lilt of wounded, the flour cur -may heroic and distinguished Captain Unfosta' nate:y stands conspicuous. He was ,dangerous l f wounded by a grape shot, about the middle or atiion, whilst fearlessly standing on the capstan, an d by his judicious manoeuvring, arid gallant exame_ d ' e ' inspiring a confideoce of success in ev er y O&T, and man around him. He was wounded in the IP side, and has since suffered almost incessant psil 4 with becoming fortitude ; but I am happy to sou l he is now pronounced out of danger, and the arden prayers of his Officers and brave crew continue t. ° be offered up with seaman lik e s i ncer i ty, f or speedy restoration to the service. of his CoulltrY; with whom his zeal, ability-, and heroism, 03°'$. ever stand unrivalled, and by w h om, if gen uill morit . wants not admir e rs, h e w ill , no dot, bf amply rewarded. He has already received the O r ; der of Knighthood and of Merit, from his Majes t i l the King of the Two Stuilies, which, no- doubt, ` 4l be followed on th e p ar t o f our goo d Sovereign 4, bless him) by the O r d er o f the 'kith, and on o us plate pension to support it. We have just learn by a flag of truce the enemy's loss U.Y. have beet ) se ' , 'Vrre beyond precedent, 1.54 killed, and 31 wounded. • LNGLISIL FORCE. Your'; truly, JAMES DUNN, Purser• Gnus Alen Spartan . . . . ;3 sSB FRENCH FORCE. 61111 S A'', Ceres „ „ 4 1 3;; Fame . . F.spervoir S AcL4llhiliiiti 140 it 7 g 1 nu ca bats, l zgu guns, w Total . . d was dismasted, and the tbil4 Total .. 3S 2iS The first escaped, the :.ecori, taken. EXTRACT OF A LEI TER FROM AN OFEIC" tlf HIGH RANK. “ Cadiz, lune 9, I g;°' e 4 All' DEAR FRIEND, " As you may wish to obtain information th o t i/C may be relied on, I embrace .this opportuttil writing you from,Cadiz, which exhibits at this 111 ,4 ment a scene particularly interesting. I rettir ° , - f yesterday evening from the advanced posts, wher - i j bad anopportunity.cf frequently seeing Blake to other charaaers, of whom u have, doubb" o 4eBt4-tti+ich, Blake has:tinder . his coMmand horns, an army of hieolv-three thousand at e ,l Cuesta commands here, and Castanos is at 'the of the itegefley, vea " It is reported that Castanos is to be rem ° Iron: the Lead of On Regency, and the Bisi ) Pv c Otenga is to replace him. .The Bishop . arT e d .deter, and ni.man of go.,tj chnaeler, bat his .`° must be ag.iinst lien, excet-tim , seventy-six.. " NNT. have, at inlet-Yak, very heavy cann orOw 1 from the hattenes round brae,yesterdAy h e P t et t swan fire from Pueota:es on the Nilelll).'6 works tits. Trocadero. Their grand objea 'A'! is to occupy e rt ggrda, from whence our t roo p s were l a t e ly dri v o f with loss, and the fortress reduced to a Heap e, ruins. It will be a warm p o si t i on , f or we Katie Yeral works and many guns to bear on it. The ( l tl hav tion then will be, on thei r ere c t i ng sea mo rtal' teries, whether the,t can annoy the town. t of " There is no apprehension for the sir'n' g o wa:cr. The season being %tot, has been the 016- 0 of filling the tanks, of which t he i n h a bi ta nts , 1; ' 0 been careful. Tile enemy are fli n c h d isconte nted w: ti the species of warfare .th e y must o f necess . carry one (l e ,p- • • " I have been several tunes at some distal,- 1 , 01 4 , the.eountry from Gibraltar (once near being on - c io i and every where have found small detacheil H of Spanish cavalry and infantry. They setdbc make a stand against the• enemy, but the 00 1 1 they -destroy is considerable. The enemy are 6 „ o s to have already Jim. seven thousand chosen tro before Cadiz and in - Andalusia witiain two moo' i ll ' From every information they hoe altogether- i ( " c „,,ir Spain above one hundred and fifty thousand of best troops. 'The officers and soldiers eau never but in strong . parttes. It atone, or not sufiicie' i e r powerful, they fall• a sacrifice to some of the pu ilj b - e ir" ous detachments employed by th e Spa n i ar d s for t destruction. They take towns without .any ance apparently, but never can keep possessiotb whole- detachment generally victims. Gibraltar the deserters from the enemy (of wh arf there there are,nubers daily) bring sad. aCCUULAIS I ,b1111:1I 101 l Of the French. ‘. cif .." cannot describe the savage snd ha r dy apP - ; once of the monntatneers. They bring pri4onc - r / of o' daisy to Gi!traltaf, and trophis of the French- 04 % 5l •they have killed, such as h o r ses , h e l mets , t:"-i 1) , r ;il cloatlat, Sze. In short, these peasants, for lll 7,io clad in sheep skii.s, are nowt completely equipPe' o . French uniforMs. One body styled th e Albux°l; occupy the Grenadines, and the c h a i n o f m ouro) from Marbellai through Rondas and Grenada, Al n a destroy the French ill doe6tions, to the east w‘' E d: rt g whilst/ the Serrano 3, or Mountaineers of the 6.° 11 , i l Morena, persecute the enemy, and make and destructive excursions on the troops to the ° I I ward. Marshal Ney's army near Salamanca is :9. 111 1' unhealthy. Our advanced division under `6eof Hill. is likely to bring them to action ; and re 0 1 ;1' says a batt,e will soon take pla ce w i t h L or d ot lington's army and. that of Ma s s en a, LIP PS the, head of 70,000 troops. 0 1 " " Although a defeat may be sustained by i f• troops and the Portuguese, it cannot irretrievablY o rd feet the general cause ; the r eso u rces o f Spit' t d more considerable than I imagined. I will write you again the first opportunity. _ .. . " Yours very truly, . ‘, 8....,,.......—. 0 " P. S. There is a report, that Feidinand is 147 :1 f1 msrried to Joseph Buonaparte's daughter. TV, 3 I( rangenient mule in. consequence is, th a t he „Lb return to Spain as Prince of Asturias, and six') his farbet4n-law. A Council of State is to be P • iii,meditttely, aad the Cortes to.be asserubled.". I.\